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  • Ibbotson calls The Ogre one of her "rompy" children's books, following in the footsteps of

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • The Middleman is a beautiful collision of fanboy camp and rompy scifi.

    Tube Bits for 10/15/2008 2008

  • He actually said 'fun and rompy', which calls into question his earlier statement about impressing SF fans.

    October 2007 2007

  • He goes on to say, "The show just gets ... a little bit darker, and it's still fun and rompy ..."

    Tube Bits For 10/20/2007 2007

  • He actually said 'fun and rompy', which calls into question his earlier statement about impressing SF fans.

    Tube Bits For 10/20/2007 2007

  • He goes on to say, "The show just gets ... a little bit darker, and it's still fun and rompy ..."

    October 2007 2007

  • There's a vast disparity in tone and content between this overwrought literary exercise and his next novel (and first best-seller), Tortilla Flat (1935), that rompy account of salt-of-the-earth down-and-outers in Monterey.

    The Rescue of John Steinbeck Gottlieb, Robert 2008

  • It's a nice rompy outlet for me, and the occasional serious research post or rant is written with anonymity for anyone I get too het up about unless it's in a good way!

    Holy Polar Bears, Batman! Kirsty 2006

  • I knew I wanted to write something fun and rompy and I knew I wanted to write an historical novel because I'd been working on lesbian and gay historic fiction for my academic work.

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

  • It enjoyed both critical and commercial success and set Ibbotson down a path of alternating what she called her "rompy books" with longer, well-researched historical novels for a slightly older age group.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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